Homeworld 2 suffers from an annoying flaw than can allow you to set your resolution to one that is wider than your screen – cutting off the buttons needed to change the resolution back. The maddening result will look something like this:

If for whatever reason you find that you’ve ended up in this unhappy place and made your Homeworld 2 resolution too wide for your screen and can’t change it back anymore, try following these steps:

Right click on your Homeworld 2 shortcut and select properties

In the target field add the following options after the location of the .exe file:-w 640 -h 480
e.g. “C:\Program Files\Homeworld 2\Bin\Release\Homeworld2.exe” -w 640 -h 480. This will force your game to run at a low resolution which should fit on any modern screen.

Start the game from this shortcut. Once the game starts change the resolution in-game to the one you want and make sure to remove these options from your shortcut when you’re done otherwise they will continue to force the game to run at this low resolution.

See hw2wiki for a full list of command line parameters. You can also check relicnews for related posts: post 1post 2

If you’re still having issues changing the resolution please post the steps you’ve followed and what the result is!

If you’ve installed the game through steam you can still create a shortcut simply by going to your steam/steamapps/common/(HomeworldRemastered?) directory and creating a shortcut directly to that .exe and applying necessary changes to that.